📰 Curb‑cutting Resistance Helped Reshape Tucson’s Urban Ecology
🌧️ Tucson: A man illegally diverted rainwater into streetside basins in 1998. Years later, it transformed a desert neighborhood into a shaded, food‑producing micro‑ecosystem.
🌵 The approach revived Indigenous rain‑harvesting traditions but also caused Tucson to change water management laws to be more nature positive.
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In 1998, a man illegally cut holes in a Tucson street curb. The result changed the law.
He ratted himself out to the city when it was clear his water diversion plan had worked.Annie Reneau (Upworthy)
